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Burton, Decimus, 1800-1881 (architect and traveller)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1800 - 1881

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Decimus Burton (1800-81), architect; younger brother of James Haliburton [q.v.], 15 Nov. 1848-19 Feb. 1864

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9389/2/B/207-212
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection comprises mostly Joseph Bonomi's correspondence and papers, with some of his brother Ignatius Bonomi and other members of his family, especially his sister-in-law Isabella Mary Martin. The non-family correspondence includes letters with Samuel Birch, Egyptologist at the British Museum, George Spencer Cautley, rector and poet, Charles Robert Cockerell, architect, John Gibson, sculptor, James Haliburton, Egyptologist, Robert Hay, Egyptologist, Owen Jones, architect, Edward Lane,...
Dates: 15 Nov. 1848-19 Feb. 1864
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter to Andrew Arcedeckne, 1839

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Vanneck-Arc/1/92
Scope and Contents

On presentation of Arcedeckne's plants to Dublin Botanical Gardens; Paxton, speaking for Duke of Devonshire, declined them for Chatsworth

Dates: 1839
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters, accounts, receipts, 1836-1838

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Vanneck-Arc/2A/92-95
Scope and Contents

For building work and alterations at Glevering Hall, Suffolk

Dates: 1836-1838
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).